A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

The media keeps pushing the lie that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables. They’re not. CSIRO and AEMO show solar and wind are far cheaper. The fossil fuel lobby funds the lie, and half our grid’s already renewable. The transition’s happening, like it or not.

Fumar es legal.Pero la publicidad del tabaco no lo es. Los anuncios de cigarrillos deben incluir advertencias sanitarias. La venta de combustibles fósiles es legal.La publicidad de combustibles fósiles no debería serlo.Las gasolineras, las facturas de gas y electricidad deberían incluir advertencias

Smoking is legal But, advertising smoking is not Cigarette ads by law carry health warnings Selling fossil fuels legal But, fossil fuels ads ought not be Petrol pumps, gas & electricity bills ought carry warnings on #fossilfuel impacts Sports too Fossils kill more peeps than ciggies #climatecrisis

If you caught the train into Perth city this morning, you would have arrived on time. A reminder: you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic A wider freeway would still have been blocked by the police incident #publictransport #urbansm+ Kwinana Freeway blockage 11 Nov 2025, Perth

Looks good to me #auspol Did you know fossil fuels air pollution causes more deaths than cigarettes?

As I have said many times, green paint is NOT bike infrastructure!!!!

Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could. Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

And the reality is that this has barely started.... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

💡#COP29 committed to a US$300bn climate goal. Almost ½ this sum could have been raised just last year by charging the 100 largest oil & gas companies a 20% surtax on their record profits. 💸 #COP30 let’s make polluters pick up their tab! www.eurodad.org/fossil_fuel_...#COP30#MakePollutersPay

Global #climatechange action fails to harnesses “successful empires” approach - combining state policy, technical standardisation, scale-driven cost reduction But response has been fragmented and diluted, rather than transformative at speed and scale needed to prevent climate tipping points #COP30

Andrew Forrest says “game-changing” tipping point in renewables means “real zero” is the winning business case for even heavy fossil fuel guzzling industries.

The Romans rolled out enormous infrastructure: roads, aqueducts, other tech Centralized planning, strong governance, and standards enabled volume-based efficiencies of from technological diffusion described by Rogers’ S Curve and Wright’s Law theconversation.com/the-roman-em...

I always find it amazing/horrifying that we tax the heck out of tobacco whilst subsiding fossil fuels.

If they're advertising fossil fuels, they're selling you a pup If they're advertising something that burns fossil fuels, whether it's fossil gas-fired power station, or an ICE vehicle, you're also being sold a pup The actor who played the “Marlboro Man” in cigarette ads ended up with lung cancer🤔

While Vietnam has heavy monsoon rains annually, this 2025 rainfalls are outliers close to global records, and exceed typical 100-year extremes e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en... increasingly frequent and severe precipitation fuelled by global warming is driving climate change across South-East Asia

Advice from @katharinehayhoe.com: "Dismissives cannot click a link that may contain factual and accurate information about climate science, impacts, or solutions. They are incapable of doing so because they are so afraid of the threat that the truth represents to their identity and/or ideology."

Documents Reveal Exxon Funded Climate Denial Campaign Across Latin America www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/he...

What an awesome night in Vancouver. Pretty amazing to connect with so many people.

A damning report has revealed that nearly 200 U.S.-based Christian leaders with anti-LGBTQ+ views have been accused of child abuse so far in 2025. #CCSA Clerical Child Sexual Abuse #CSA #AbuseByClergy #Hypocrisy USA gayexpress.co.nz/2025/11/near...

Better to farm solar for energy than to farm crops to use for biofuels 1ha solar array ~600kW 1000-1500 MWh/year (varies with location) >100x more energy than 1ha planted crop for biofuels - Soybean: ~8.3 MWh/yr (updated graphic with revised numbers including corn and sugar cane)

Electoral rise of independents / minor parties signals profound dissatisfaction with Labor and LNP As long as 2PP is BAU, independents’ influence constrained Would a teal party break this cycle? And confront systemic barriers of Australia’s 2PP system? Thoughts? theconversation.com/coalitions-p...

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to do wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables unless onsite. But what critics conveniently forget is huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Texas. 👇

Everything Electric energy & electric vehicle show Melbourne 14-16 Nov 2025 I'll be there on a panel with Jack Scarlett: Anything but cars: decarbonizing public transport - buses, trains, and ferries au.everythingelectric.show

The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems. The world took his theory as gospel. 1/n

8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱 The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Via Etienne Berthier

21 years ago we had stillborn twins. It still hurts. I cannot express in words the loathing I feel about these men. To suggest people would cash in on such excruciating loss says everything you need to know about these “moral conservatives.” Arseholes. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Science and physics doesn't care about what peeps fail to smell or see or know, nor the evidence-free opinions they rely Science just is 🧪 #Science

HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset now updated to Sep 2025. As usual, data can be downloaded from CRU/UEA website: crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tem... And from Met Office/hadobs website: www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcr... @climateuea.bsky.social @colinmorice.bsky.social

Heck, if each of the beers you have is bigger, you could have fewer beers and more beer at the same time. Schrodinger's Beer???

啤酒 China World’s biggest producer of beer 啊，我亲爱的、值得信赖的啤酒。 我对你的爱永不消逝。 — Homer Simpson A drinker's microguide to English language word usage. Fewer chips, Less beer. (Though you could haver fewer beers - doh!)

A very relevant issue for fully EV drivers: range anxiety is no longer an issue ... charger anxiety is now the Number One issue for new EV purchasers, particularly if you live in country regions. 🥴☹😎

After five years at the @australiainstitute.org.au, I'm hanging up my posting gloves. It's been a privilege working with such an incredible bunch of brave and brilliant people. Thanks to you all for making it so special. For my last newsletter, I put in a few words of my own ⤵️

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864

Cop out? Anthony Albanese wants to host the next global climate summit – so why isn’t he attending this one?

It's not a drone strike It's a tariff that Ukraine has insisted Russia pay

The Earth without "art" is just "eh"? — Banksy

Very nice. Welcome to the Zeekr family. I've ordered this same spec and colour. Mine is due in Adelaide in January.

The environmental crisis isn't slowing down for 2PP politics Weight of science and public opinion is on the side of urgent reform Real “nature positive” reform needed, urgent, robust laws that match the scale of the biodiversity and climate crises, not carve-outs and loopholes and concessions

The choice is made The order is in Zeekr 7X AWD Outstanding

Halloween in Australia

Net zero is at the heart of the Paris Agreement. It's essential if we are to have a safe climate. If the Coalition can't bring themselves to utter the term then they may as well be honest, follow Trump and dump the agreement. #climatecrisis #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

Halloween just a vehicle for profiteers to put more sugar in kids Halloween 2025 spend in USA projected $13.1B Retailers Walmart, Target, Kmart etc dominate with big range of cheap lollies, costumes, decorations Then online 45% sales = confectionary Aus spend ~$500M That's >5 West Aus Telethons

Kamala talking about the sexual assault cases defending little kids she took on and I'm thinking about who America chose to elect instead. What does it say about a nation when you elect Epstein's self pronounced bestie instead of the defender..? www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3lh...

We will never be the 51st State. Nor will #Canada 🍁 Point well made by Punters of the smothering of Aussie identity by cultural export though...

Further to this morning's discussion about a car driver causing the death of a 5yo girl, a reminder that in the USA today (October 31st, Halloween) and tomorrow (November 1st) are both in the top ten most deadly days on roads. Let's be extra careful tonight. theryanlawgroup.com/blog/the-10-...

The world might be pulling back on climate truth: but I'm stepping it up. How? I'm adding new videos, deep dives & behind-the-scenes stories to Talking Climate. Why? Because climate honesty and hope matter more than ever right now. Join me on Patreon: bit.ly/47pCLaf Or Substack: bit.ly/4ntfvhJ

While Fortesue is Australia’s 3rd largest tax payer, I’m disgusted with the fossil fuel industries in Australia who have been paying lobbyists to avoid tax while Fortescue has been paying tax - and more than 8% dividends to shareholders Paraphrasing Dr Andrew Forrest at FMG AGM

Paint me cool: scientists reveal roof coating that reduces surface temperatures up to 6°C on hot days Sydney researchers say can cool indoor spaces and will cost little more than standard premium paints Spoiler alert - the coating is white www.theguardian.com/environment/...